Jeremy Cherfas

Richard MacManus is indiewebifying his site, and had this to say:

I’ve found the IndieWeb tools to be tremendously helpful, and the community to be open and friendly. But I think my own goals are a little different. I’m less interested in the technologies themselves (like microformats and webmention) and more interested in how they’re being used in the wider Web community. Not dissimilar to my interests when I started ReadWriteWeb. But of course to do this, I need to stand on the shoulders of the developers who build the tools.

All of which sums up my own position exactly. I’d go slightly further. I’m not as interested in how the technologies are being used in the wider Web community as I am in putting them to use myself.

p.s. A major drawback of Withknown’s excellent engine is that it doesn’t allow New Posts to be replies, and that means I can’t use the MarkDown formatting.

As is often the case, Dave is focused on RSS rather than the web per se.

That is precisely what I am unhappy about @niederhuth Thanks for taking the time to read.

Nice link @mdesoucey You’ve seen this, I hope foodanthro.com/2017/07/0…

Which I said where, @wrightmderek ?

.@wrightmderek Did you even read it? Not about “plant breeding”. About thinking breeding for taste is something shockingly novel, in @kevinfolta’s own words

@kevinfolta On second thoughts, also a repudiation of your ultimate goal, which I guess is IPR.

@kevinfolta Absolutely not a validation. A repudiation of your methods, not your goals.

Doing the same thing? Not at all. Pursuing a similar goal, and doing it very differently. @kevinfolta

BEIJING, June 20 (Reuters) - China will spend almost twiceas much this year on subsidies to encourage farmers in thenortheast to reduce corn plantings as it intensifies its push torebalance grain stocks.

The country will issue 2.56 billion yuan ($374.95 million)in funds to pay farmers subsidies to rotate their corn plantingswith other crops every other year as well as to leave some landfallow, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.

The funds are 78 percent higher than last year, and theacreage targeted by the subsidies is double last year’s area ataround 800,000 hectares.

Giving myself a quick break by reading Lukas Rosenstock’s monthly review, and coming away with a few thoughts. One is that Lukas is brave, as he recognises, to admit that some things aren’t going to plan. Another is that he used six Pomodori to write the review; that seems like time well spent. Another is that he mentions a few tools that are new to me and that I ought to check out. But there’s the rub. There’s no point checking them out unless I plan to make some use of them.

I do my monthly reviews OK, although June is delayed until next weekend because I have paid work to finish. Should I publish them, and hold myself publicly accountable? Lots of #indieweb enthusiasts are driven by data-logging themselves and making the results available. I don’t think I am, although I can see the benefits of tracking and setting specific goals.

Hmmm. First time opening micro.blog I get an Internal Server Error.

Maybe this means I’ve been signed out, but then why not say so?

When it comes to a decibel meter on my iPhone, I really like SPLnFFT

I have an episode in the pipeline on just this subject; better promote it. @MatthewJDalby

Dave Winer offers three reasons why he will not point to a Facebook post

No. 2 is my favourite:

It’s supporting their downgrading and killing the web. Your post sucks because it doesn’t contain links, styling, and you can’t enclose a podcast if you want. The more people post there, the more the web dies. I’m sorry no matter how good your idea is fuck you I won’t help you and Facebook kill the open web.